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“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened,” wrote
Terry Pratchett, years before his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease forced
him to live out his theory.

Now, aged only 66, Sir Terry has been forced to withdraw from his first public
event in the UK as the illness takes its toll.

In a turn of phrase worthy of a man who created a world on a flat planet that
travels through space, held up by four giant elephants on the back of an
enormous turtle, he blamed “the Embuggerance” that he announced to the world
in 2007.